From battle plans to football plays: Extending military team cognition to football

Abstract

One area of focus for the sport sciences is on the improvement of team process and performance. The analogies and similarities between military command‐andcontrol and American football serve as a useful bridge in which human factors, military, and industrial/organizational psychologist can share their findings in team process and performance with the sports sciences. The Cognitive Engineering on Team Tasks Laboratory (CERTT) has approached this problem with the development of a synthetic test‐bed replicating unmanned aerial vehicle command‐and‐control coordination in the lab. Results from the lab in the areas of performance, process, holistic vs. aggregative methods, training, and communication and skill retention are used to suggest future directions in improving team performance in football